Tag: movies
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HELP! Who are the Ghibli women filmmakers?
Since I can’t read Japanese, it’s hard for me to identify the women filmmakers at Studio Ghibli throughout the years. Please help me crowdsource the most frequent women contributors behind the scenes. While the studio is known for writing complex women characters, they’ve never had a woman director. Most of the studio’s women have roles…
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Complete Micheaux Blu-ray review
This 2025 Oscar Micheaux Blu-ray release by Kino Lorber is the most groundbreaking collection since Criterion’s Complete Varda set in 2020. Both have made the directors’ works much more accessible to the public. The review below is based on a five-star (*****) system, modeled from my review on Blu-ray.com. Review ***** To give it the…
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IMDb Top 30 – 2019 & 2024 Comparison
A quick look at how popular opinion has changed in the past five years. Not a whole lot of change. The Top 5 are still holding steady, and the Top 10 hasn’t changed much, even in the past fifteen years. Via https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/ A few notes: All stats are from December 13th. Wayback Machine Archive.org links:…
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Major U.S. Studios Timeline
A timeline and “family tree” of the major American movie studios. Organized around the top 5 producers of feature films throughout the years. The “market share” percentages on the right edge of the graphic are sourced from The-Numbers.com 2020 Distributors Gross Earnings. The information is based on the “major film studios” chart on Wikipedia. Below…